At 08:45 AM 09/01/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>"We have to admit we know less about things than we thought we did," said
>Martin Regalia, chief economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
>
>Nevertheless, the "we" that knows less than they thought they did still
>assumes they know more than the them who never presumed to know so much.
>There is a fixed amount of hubris.

is this the "lump of hubris" fallacy?

Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine

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